Ever been in or witness a conversation about body hang ups only to hear the phrase, “Don’t worry, everyone hates their body!” come spewing out of some poor, well-meaning individual’s mouth? I have, and there’s few phrases I hate more. It makes my toes curl up and my face do this amazing thing where I pull it back and my …

We’ve all been there, we turn up at the studio, or we roll into our home pole room. Our bodies are telling us ‘YES I am ready to train’, but our minds, our mindsss are telling us ‘NoooOooOo’. Because we haven’t organised our lives and we have literally no clue what to train today. Invariably you end up doing very …

The Supreme Poledown: Sports vs Sexy 2017 took place in the Wirral on 18th March. I was there to compete in the Open Sexy category, and to also give my readers a scoop on this brand new competition and what it was like. I’ll start off with the venue. I arrived in the morning after a leisurely drive over as …

A couple of weekends ago I had the pleasure of competing in the Supreme Poledown: Sports vs Sexy 2017. There were a few things in the run up to the competition, and on the day, that I realised “Huh, it would be pretty useful for competitors to know this”. This is specificially for those first time competitors; competitions are this …

Previously on Pole With Peach… I wrote a post titled Our Stripper Shoes Aren’t Just A Costume, so go over and give it a read. And I mean, like, read the WHOLE THING, please. Because that is why I am writing this piece here. I had a lot of comments, and a few messages, following that piece, which were pretty …

This post has been prompted by a discussion on social media. I have been ruminating over it myself for quite some time. So, no better moment than the present to discuss it. OK, there are a couple of tough questions here… ‘Who should wear pole heels?’ and ‘Who should perform sexy style?’ This isn’t going to be an easy topic, because I …

In my previous post in this ‘Pole Dancing: An Art Historian’s Perspective’ I discussed the Aesthetics of Acceptable Sexy. I explained the theoretical definitions of Fine Art / Erotic Art and pornography, and examined the philosophical thought behind these definitions, and why they are separated on a social and cultural level. One thing became clear in this discussion; that the …

What lessons do we have to learn from cats? Besides the obvious (how to scream at people to feed you, and the importance of sleeping all the time) are there other, pole-related lessons that we can learn? I was inspired to ask this question when Leah Von Belle, a total BABE and slinky body rolls master, shared this photo of her …

Hello to all my fellow poling parents! Mothers, Fathers and everyone inbetween. My name is Abby and I’m here today to talk about life in the pole world after Mr.Stork has paid a visit. Between nappy changes, heel classes, sleepless nights, routine prep, baby yoga, pole conditioning and express feeding there’s really not much more to life for the post-baby …

I recently read through my old dissertation again, and was inspired to apply some of the research onto pole dancing. Having studied History of Art at university there are so many theories and ideas that can be applied to dance as a result of some of their shared qualities – creativity, aesthetics, the creator-audience connection and how meaning is communicated. Many of …